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KLOR is 34 keys split columnar staggered keyboard made by GEIST. I built it with Nice!Nano and without an OLED screen. Been regularly taking it with me to the office.

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[–] doob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How’s the other side look? Seems like this would be 36 key?

[–] Bubbleology@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, that's correct! That's just one half of it so it's indeed a 36 key keyboard - sorry for any confusions :)

[–] doob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know it came in a 36 key variant. That’s pretty interesting!

[–] dreipunkteinsvier@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Geist's KLOR might still be the best MX split on the market. Has everything one could wish for.

[–] hannadryad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just worked out that a rotary controller can be mapped onto a mouse scroll wheel, which suddenly makes a lot of sense. I've been sitting here thinking "why would I want a volume knob? Why would I want two?" Is there anything else I am missing about rotary controllers?

[–] Bubbleology@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hehe, yeah you can map it to different things. I like to use it for ctrl+left and ctrl+right to quickly jump back and forth between words and also ctrl+pg up and ctrl+pg dn to quickly navigate between browser tabs.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My mapping is encoder: scroll wheel ctrl+encoder: horizontal scroll layer shift+encoder: switch desktops

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this… half of the keyboard? Or do you have a mode switch or something so you type the mirrored key? What kind of WPM can you get? It’s super cool, it hasn’t occurred to me that you could have a one handed keyboard